I know they're they're on their way, they're at an earlier meeting we had at 445, so uh they should be here shortly.

Uh so I'd like to welcome everybody to our city council meeting.

The date is July 22nd, uh 2025.

Uh it is 541.

And uh we do, as a matter of roll call.

I mentioned we do have uh three of our council members here, the two that are not should be here shortly, and I I I anticipate that will happen.

Uh we do like to start out with uh an opening prayer, and I ask Chris if he would do that today.

Our dear Heavenly Father, we come before thee this evening with gratitude in our hearts for the uh blessings that those granted unto us, and we thank you, Father, for the opportunity to gather together as a community and as a council to discuss the issues that are before us this evening.

And we are thankful, Father, for the opportunity to discuss and to give insight and to uh make these decisions.

And we thank thee for um the opportunity that some have had to go to the reservoir this night and to review that and pray that we'll all be able to have a chance to go see that wonderful uh facility and the progress that's being made.

We pray, Father, for our first responders and their families and for our military and their families as well.

We pray that thou may watch over them and bless them.

And we ask thee to bless those around the country who've been impacted significantly by natural disasters and floods, and pray that thou be with them and and bless us in our area, Father, to show our gratitude for that which we have and always have a willing heart to serve one another.

We pray thy spirit to be with us this evening and do so in the name of the son Jesus Christ.

Thank you very much.

Okay, we have three uh presentations today.

Item 2.1 is the presentation on pressurized irrigation uh water rights, and this is mostly just for discussion right now, correct?

Yes, we're really preliminary, and I'll invite Fred Billpott to come up.

He has a short presentation.

So you know, we talk about this a lot where uh the state a couple of years ago was required us to meter all pressurized irrigation connections.

Um and we're working on doing that.

I think out of the 14,000 connect unmetered connections that we had, I think they've probably gotten a little over half of those done.

Um but there's also a process of getting radials installed so that they'll read and getting those into our software system.

So we're still very early in the process.

Uh what Fred's waiting for now is uh to get for us to get some good data and get some good reads over a period of time so we can do some analysis.

So Fred Philpot is with uh the firm of uh Lewis Robertson and Burningham, and he's doing our uh rate study to help us get this figured out.

Um now his computer's fried.

Yep.

And while he's working on that, let me ask you a question, Dean, because we have what roughly 27,000 units in town.

Yeah, yeah, maybe not maybe not quite that many.

I don't know.

Less Alison, no, no, 18,000.

18,000.

Is there a lot of homes that not on the Nox 27 Matt Howard?

Yeah.

And so every connection has a power meter, but sometimes some are masters.

That makes sense.

I was just trying to understand you know how many we were actually installing.

Yeah, because I told somebody the other day, you know, what I thought the number of homes were, but you're right.

If they're master meter, we're not installing that many.

Okay.

Um so what I wanted Fred to come and just introduce this.

Again, we don't really have data or there's nothing really to propose, but he's gonna show what some other cities have done.

Alpine's already in the process uh already does this, Spanish Fork, Springville, Saratoga Springs already do.

And so he's gonna, and there's just some variety with this.

So what I'm interested in, if you have opinions now, because there's sometimes you can see there's a bit of a trade-off between having a simple rate that's easy to understand or understand versus having a more complicated rate that is maybe more fair, but might be different, more difficult to understand.

I'm also curious to know if you have any opinion on you know do you think it makes sense to have a certain portion of the city, get that really good and comfortable where we feel and then implement through the rest of the city or try to do the whole city at once, and the only reason it's scarier to do the whole city at once is because if there's something that we've missed on the study and it's easier to fix it if it's a subset of that rather than the whole city.

And there's not really a right or wrong answer.

Again, we're not looking for a decision or anything.

I just want Fred to introduce some of this and get any any thoughts that you had, because this is going to be a process that's going to be go ongoing for a couple of years.

I'll turn it over to Fred.

Thanks, Dean.

Sorry for the delay.

So the three items that I wanted to talk about, as Dean summarized, is to go over uh what your current rate structure looks like.

Uh then talk about a recent study we did with a neighbor community with the city of Alpine, and then look at some comparable communities and then have that discussion.

Allow you to provide some feedback, and that will allow me and my team to go back and build scenarios that will be helpful for you as you evaluate how you would like to implement uh uh rate changes uh relative to the secondary water system.

So right now you have a uh uh rate that is uh charge per connection uh based on lot size, and then you have some uh uh uh elements of your rate relative to a shareholder charge.

Um that was similar to Alpine, where there were essentially legacy rates relative to those that um held water rights or other elements relative to the secondary system, and there was a unique rate for those types of customers.

As we look at um a comparable, again, looking at Alpine, what we did uh for this community is they hadn't looked at their rates for quite a while and had several objectives that they wanted to evaluate.

We completed this study in 2022.